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"You have to realize
that more than six million Venezuelans voted for another option.
Hopefully, they will be taken into account," said Acting Assistant
Secretary for Public Affairs, Department of State, Mike Hammer

A document dated
October 3 says Andrea Radonski, Capriles' aunt, was followed, informed
Jorge Lanata on Sunday evening through his TV show "Journalism for
everyone"

Argentinean journalist Jorge Lanata has revealed that the Venezuelan
intelligence service spied on opposition ex-presidential candidate
Henrique Capriles, his inner circle, entrepreneurs, and journalists,
before the presidential election held on October 7.

Approximately 12%-13% of the American population is African-American,
but they make up 40.1% of the almost 2.1 million male inmates in jail or
prison (U.S. Department of Justice, 2009). Census data for 2000 of the
number and race of all individuals incarcerated in the United States
revealed a wide racial disproportion of the incarcerated population in
each state: the proportion of blacks in prison populations exceeded the
proportion among state residents in twenty states; the percent of blacks
incarcerated was five times greater than the resident population.

JUAN GONZÁLEZ: We begin
today’s show with a look at solitary confinement. On any given day, tens
of thousands of prisoners in the United States are held in prolonged
isolation for up to 23 hours a day. Many are kept in cells no larger
than seven feet by 10 feet and have their only human contact when guards
slide through meals in a slot in their cell door.
These conditions were the subject of a historic congressional hearing
Tuesday called by Senator Dick Durbin, Democrat of Illinois and chair
of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights
and Human Rights. This is how Senator Durbin began the hearing.

SEN. DICKDURBIN:
The United States holds far more prisoners in segregation or solitary
confinement than any other democratic nation on earth. The Bureau of
Justice Statistics found that, in 2005, U.S. prisons held 81,622 people
in some type of restricted housing. In my home state of Illinois, 56
percent of the prison population has spent time in segregation.

If I had one request to my colleagues on this judiciary committee, it
is to visit a prison. Do it frequently. See what it’s like. I’ve done
it, most recently in Pekin at the federal facility. But I’ve been to
Tamms, which is our maximum confinement facility in the state of
Illinois. It is an eye opener to understand what it means when you start
talking about the sentencing aspects of Americans’ criminal justice
system.

My name is Anthony Graves, and I am death row exoneree
number 138. I was wrongfully convicted and sentenced to death in Texas
back in 1992.

Like all death row inmates, I was kept in solitary confinement, under
some of the worst conditions imaginable, with the filth, the food, the
total disrespect of human dignity. I lived under the rules of a system
that is literally driving men out of their minds. I survived the
torture. But I—but those 18 years was no way to live.

I lived in a small eight-by-12-foot cage. I had a steel bunk bed,
with very thin plastic mattress and pillow that you could only trade out
once a year. I have back problems as a result. I had a steel toilet and
sink that were connected together, and it was positioned in the sight
of male and female officers—degrading.

I had a small shelf that I was able to use as a desk to write on and
eat on. There was a small—a very small window up at the top of the back
wall. In order to see the sky, you would have to roll your plastic
mattress up to stand on. I had concrete walls that were always peeling
with old paint.

I lived behind a steel door that had two small slits in it, the space
replaced with iron mesh wire, which was dirty and filthy. Those slits
were cut out to communicate with the officers that were right outside
your door. There was a slot that’s called a pan hole, and that’s how you
would receive your food. I had to sit on my steel bunk like a trained
dog while the officers would place the trays in my slot. This is no
different from the way we train our pets.

The food lacks the proper nutrition, because it’s either dehydrated
when served to your or perhaps you’ll find things like rat feces or a
small piece of broken glass. When I was escorted to the infirmary one
day, I was walking past where they fix the food, and I watched a guy fix
his food and was sweating in it. That was the food they was going to
bring me.

There is no real medical care. I had no television, no telephone, and
most importantly, I had no physical contact with another human being
for 10 of the 18 years I was incarcerated. Today I have a hard time
being around a group of people for long periods of time without feeling
too crowded. No one can begin to imagine the psychological effects
isolation has on another human being.

truth-out.org/torture-us-prison-system-endless.../1312917659

13 Aug 2011 – Leonard
Peltier, a great-grandfather, artist, writer, and indigenous rights
activist, is a citizen of the Anishinabe and Dakota/Lakota Nations and ...

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By Amy Goodman with Denis Moynihan
The great recession of 2008, this global economic meltdown, has wiped
out the life savings of so many people and created a looming threat of
chronic unemployment for millions. Despite unemployment levels that
remain high, and the anxiety caused by people living paycheck to
paycheck, many workers in the United States are taking matters into
their own hands, demanding better working conditions and better pay.
These are the workers who are left unmentioned in the presidential
debates, who remain uninvited into the corporate news networks’ gilded
studios. These are the workers at Wal-Mart, the largest private employer
in the United States. These are the tomato pickers from Florida. With
scant resources, armed with their courage and the knowledge that they
deserve better, they are organizing and getting results.

File Format: PDF/Adobe Acrobat - Quick ViewAmerican prisons and jails has exceeded 2 million for the first time. ... the state prison population increased 0.9%, while the federal system grew by 5.8%. An ...

1 Aug 2012 – The cost to maintain the federal prison population has grown by 1700 ... is an increase of $278 million over the FY 2012 enacted budget for the Bureau. ... take a closer look the rising costs of incarceration in the United States.

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